Upgrade to 24GB ASUS TUF RTX4090

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androb

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Hi Folks
I am thinking of upgrading my current 3090 to this 4090 beast as hoping to take advantage Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom liberty. As I am going to use the PC specialist upgrade facility, and seeing so many drop downs with so many options, is there anything else I should upgrade?

for example I am think should I change the power, processor cooling or do even more money than sense and change my memory to a flashy RGB.

Currently I have the ASUS ROG Swift PG35VQ monitor
Case
CORSAIR CRYSTAL SERIES 680X RGB GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core CPU (3.4GHz-4.9GHz/72MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX/SLI)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (2x16
Graphics Card
10GB GEFORCE RTX 3090 HDMI, DP (Xmas delivery not guaranteed)
1st Storage Drive
6GB SEAGATE IRONWOLF
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 980 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000w RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11
 
sck451

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I would strongly question the wisdom of that upgrade. Maybe a 3090 can't max out that monitor, but I very much doubt it isn't capable of doing a very decent job. You're talking about spending £1700 on a new graphics card. Maybe you can get £600-700 for the old one, but that seems a hell of a lot of money for a relatively small performance upgrade in one game.

Your existing spec is very, very good. The only benefit you'd get from the RAM upgrade is the flashy lights; you'd have to decide if it's worth £80!
 
SpyderTracks

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sck451 said:
I would strongly question the wisdom of that upgrade. Maybe a 3090 can't max out that monitor, but I very much doubt it isn't capable of doing a very decent job. You're talking about spending £1700 on a new graphics card. Maybe you can get £600-700 for the old one, but that seems a hell of a lot of money for a relatively small performance upgrade in one game.

Your existing spec is very, very good. The only benefit you'd get from the RAM upgrade is the flashy lights; you'd have to decide if it's worth £80!
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Am I missing something, I don’t see any mention of a monitor?
 
SpyderTracks

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sck451 said:
Yes, you are!
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I see it now, thank you. Think binoculars are in order

I also think OP may be making the mistake of gaming at Ultra settings, you need to optimise settings for any game, no matter how powerful your gpu is. Running at ultra simply produces a really huge hit on FPS for zero gain. In all games there will be settings you can reduce or disable without affecting graphical quality.

In pc gaming you’re expected to be optimising settings, otherwise you’re just throwing away available performance. Cyberpunk has numerous settings like this.
 
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androb

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I must admit with the amount of money spent on PC. I expect it to run at Ultra settings first. I only optimise when there is notable frame loss. I have a think about what you wrote

sck451 :)​


Thanks everyone for taking the time to look and reply- happy PCing
 
SpyderTracks

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androb said:
I must admit with the amount of money spent on PC. I expect it to run at Ultra settings first. I only optimise when there is notable frame loss. I have a think about what you wrote

sck451 :)​


Thanks everyone for taking the time to look and reply- happy PCing
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Ultimate settings isn't a thing with pcgaming, it's only used for benchmarks, you'd never use it for gaming as above it's a pointless waste of performance for zero visual improvement

ULTRA GRAPHICS SETTINGS - DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE

Hi all Moving to PC Gaming requires some knowledge on adjusting graphical settings to get best performance, especially when on a more budget system, or with some games that aren't ported so well to PC and have rogue settings that can either be turned down or even disabled. For most games, if...
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One setting for example that will tank FPS but provide absolutely zero benefit is NVidia Hairworks, there are several others in that game.
 
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AccidentalDenz

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I have a 5800X and a RTX3080 (albeit only 16GB of RAM at the moment), so I have a pretty powerful system, but it is a fair bit less powerful than your own. Hitting the default setting button in CP2077, it gave me mostly medium settings and RT off. By turning on DLSS to Quality, I can move a few of those settings upto High, but as @SpyderTracks points out, there's a few settings that eat through resources for minimal improvement to your experience. The setttings around clouds for example can be turned down as it's going to be rare that you'll see enough of the sky in Night City for long enough for you to need picture perfect clouds. Having the game generating perfect clouds even when you're indoors or otherwise can't see the sky is a waste of resources.

A lot of games are getting pretty good at their default settings putting out a fairly optimal experience for your hardware. You can definitely use that as a baseline and play around with improving them. For example, some games with my setup will default to 1080 Ultra settings or 1440 Very High settings. As someone with a 4k monitor, I find I can often tweak things to a mix of Medium and High settings at 4k using DLSS. Certain games I'm happy to drop down to 1440 as a slight drop in resolution, but will make up for it in slightly prettier settings.

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With the above specs in mind, I'm inclined to agree with the advice already given. You've got a phenomenal system as is, and there's not going to be much improvement by adding a 4090 in there. Might be worth looking at a 5080 or 5090 when the next generation releases, but there's not enough of an improvement in performance between the GPU you have now and the one you're looking at in my opinion.
 
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